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- PIN TAG. No. 322,631. Patented July 21, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES J. MURPHY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PIN-TAG.

SQPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,631, dated July 21, 1885.

Application filed November 22, 1864. (No model.)

,To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES J. MURPHY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pin'Tags, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This inventionrelates to tags used by clothdealers and others for marking the price, quality, and other particulars of their goods, and which tags are provided with a pin or wire fastening to secure them to the goods. Ordinarily the wire fastening, which is made to present double prongs, is projected through the card or ticket of the tag on which the marks are made. This not only takes up room on the face of the ticket, which should present a clear and uninterrupted surface, but the ticket, being made of paper, is liable to be torn by the pin and to crease and double up when folding the goods; nor is this latter objection remedied by using two layers of paper, the one presenting a clear or uninterrupted marking-surface outside of the head or bridge of the fastening, as has also heretofore been done.

My invention has mainly for its object the removal of these several objections and the production of a pin-tag which shall be firmer and more durable.

To these and other ends the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective, as seen from its upper or outer side or face, of a pin-tag embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the same as seen from its under or inner face; Fig. 3, a transverse section of the pin-tag in course of construction, before the pin or fastening is fully secured thereto and before the ticket or card is applied; and Fig. i is a transverse section of the finished pin-tag. Figs. 5 and 6 are under views, showing modifications of the finished tag.

Referring, in the first instance, to Figs. 1,

does a thinflexible paper base, which is liable to tear. The pin or fastening, as here shown, consists of a piece of wire first bent and fashioned to form two sharpened prongs,

which are doubled or bent at their upper ends, as at b, and connected together by a bridge, 3. The doubled ends 12 are projected from below through the inflexible base A till the bridge 0 is brought up against or embedded in the under side of said base, as shown in Fig. 3, after which the doubled ends I) are bent and pressed down upon or embedded in the upper face of the base A, as shown in Fig. 4, thus giving a very secure hold to the-pin. The ticket or card 0, on which the tag is marked, is then cemented or secured on the upper or outer face of the base A,which,by reason ofits inflexibility,will support the ticket and restrain it from being bent or doubled up, as well as much more securely hold the pin or fastening thana thin layer of paper would do, while the ticket is made to present a perfectly clear and uninterrupted face for the necessary marks.

To prevent the inflexible base A from objectionably protruding beyond the surface on which the tag is applied, it is chamfered on its side edges or portions, d, to enable it to embed itself in the cloth or other material. The

tag is applied to lie close or flat thereon.

In some cases the ticket 0 may extend beyond the inflexible base A, as shown in Fig. 5, and, where the ticket is a still larger one, it may be supported and carried by two or more separated inflexible base-pieces, A, provided each with a suitable pin-or fastening.

In each case the pin or fasteningis clinched or secured by its prongs to the goods,as other pin-tags are secured.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a pin-tag, the combination, with the inflexible base A and its outside card or paper ticket, (3, of the pin or wire fastening B,

described, a paper card or ticket oncthe extearranged to project through the base and serior of said base, and a pin or wire fastening cured thereto by an under bridge portion, a, secured to said base beneath the ticket, sub and upper doubled bent-over portions, b, essenstantially as specified. tially as shown and described.

2. The combination, in a pin-tag, of an inflexible base chamfered at its side edges, as I JAMES J. MURPHY. Vitnesses:

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